Chapter 35 Market Structure: Theory and Evidence

Handbook of Industrial Organization

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2301-2368

  Sutton, John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advertising; Bounds approach; Endogenous sunk costs; Industrial structure; Manufacturing; Oligopoly; R D; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049152886     PISSN: 1573448X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-448X(06)03035-4     Document Type: Review

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